Blogger discredits claim Amelia Earhart was taken prisoner by Japan

This image, part of a History Channel documentary on Amelia Earhart, cause a stir on the internet last week. But it seems like they spoke too soon.

serious doubts now surround the film’s premise after a Tokyo-based blogger unearthed the same photograph in the archives of the National Diet Library, Japan’s national library.

The image was part of a Japanese-language travelogue about the South Seas that was published almost two years before Earhart disappeared. Page 113 states the book was published in Japanese-held Palau on 10 October 1935.

(via The Guardian)